It's heeeeere!

[MisterMike]

I don't know if I've been this excited about anything in a long time!

Got my very first vapemail today from Gentlemen's Reserve - an Ego starter kit and my order of GR Burley juice, plus a very pleasant surprise! Daniel very kindly added a sampler bottle of Tasty Vapor's Boston Cream Pie flavour in the strength that I ordered to the package.

Having never tried a Boston Cream anything, I googled what it was and it seems to be a chocolate/vanilla/cakey concoction. I'm looking forward to trying it out. I've got one battery on the charger, and another that seems to have some charge already.

A BIG THANK YOU to Daniel @ Gentlemen's Reserve! I'll be back with my impressions later.

 

[ChellyNelly]

Never heard of a Boston Cream Donut at Tim Hortons? Shame on you!

 

[MisterMike]

Oh, I'd heard of them plenty, but I'm not one for filled donuts. I tried a jam-filled donut many years ago, and now I just find something inherently wrong with the whole concept. Even if they are chocolatey.

I loves me their cherry timbits, though. Hmmm, gotta find a good cherry e-juice to sample.

 

[MisterMike]

So. First impressions.

The eGo is a great vape. I'm still on my first cartridge fill, with 24mg GR Burley juice, and what's better is I haven't had a cigarette in over 4 hours now. Usually by this time I'd be fidgety as all get-out, and be about a hair's breadth away from exploding at anyone or anything that looks/breathes/thinks at me wrong. So far, I haven't missed the tobacco at all.

I'd post my thoughts on the Burley juice, but I burned my tongue on a cup of coffee earlier this morning and am kind of stuffed up.

Aw heck. Here goes: I'm getting a sense of the tobacco, though it's not the most prevalent flavour in the mix. What hits me first is a flavour I'm having a really hard time identifying, but has notes of something that is almost, but not completely like caramel. I'd never understood how a flavour could be 'darker' before, but that's almost how I'd put it. A darker caramelly flavour. It's odd, but not bad. I'm getting an aftertaste of something spicy, too. Almost peppery. Throat hit's amazing, and the vapour production is great (in my very limited experience on both those counts, mind you).

It's going to take a bit of time to get fully used to, but I can see myself really enjoying this one.

 

[shockabsorber]

Good for you for finding a setup that's satisfying! That's a HUGE hurdle that you just overcame. It's all downhill from here MisterMike.

 

[Zeeker]

Kudos MisterMike. Great to see you starting on the road to a better life. All the best to ya...

 

[MisterMike]

Thanks everyone! 5.5 hours now!

I promise I won't keep updating you with how much time it's been. I'm just floored that I'm not feeling any adverse effects. Given my past history of quitting, I was absolutely sure that I'd have been a complete bear at this point.

Anyway, just popped some of the Boston Cream Pie into a cartridge to give it a go, and it's suuuuuuper tasty. A nice creamy, custardy vanilla flavour at first, with a lingering hint of sweet chocolate in the aftertaste. It's underpinned by something else, too. I might have to go try me a Boston Cream donut at Timmy's one of these days, if this is what I'm missing out on.

 

[shockabsorber]

Anyway, just popped some of the Boston Cream Pie into a cartridge to give it a go, and it's suuuuuuper tasty. A nice creamy, custardy vanilla flavour at first, with a lingering hint of sweet chocolate in the aftertaste. It's underpinned by something else, too. I might have to go try me a Boston Cream donut at Timmy's one of these days, if this is what I'm missing out on.

I bet you never described an analog like that! Welcome to the new you.

 

[ChellyNelly]

Boston Cream is prettttty good, and I'm not even much of a chocolate person at all. My bf and I had the same luck when we got our kits, soon as we received them, we quit smoking. I tried a cigarette a week or 2 later just to see if I'd still enjoy it and it was extremely nasty tasting, made me feel really sick, and I stubbed it out like half way. So quitting was extremely easy this way so us, it's been almost 5 months now! We had used the gum and patch to quit a couple of years ago shortly after we first met and we both quit for about 3 months. But one day I just had this craving like no other and started frantically searching our apartment for any kind of piece of cig and lo and behold I found one behind the dresser. It was as stale as hell but I enjoyed it muchly. Then I went and bought a pack of smokes

With vaping though, I have yet to have a craving like that. I have a passing though sometimes that a cigarette would be great right now, but I would not actually call it a craving. It's literally just a thought that pops into my head, but then I take a vape, and it's gone as soon as it came. I do want to warn you though you might have a few side effects, and that's totally natural. All that poison exiting your body will likely have effects. The most common ones and their "cures" are: dry mouth (drink tons of h20), deadening or changing or tastebuds (switch up flavours frequently or if no taste, try a strong one like menthol or cinnamon), coughing up phlegm (this one might be a couple days to a couple weeks, and feels good, so just wait it out), slight irritability, anxiety, or depression (keep your thoughts positive and make sure everyone knows you're quitting ). Honestly the worst thing for me was a mild depression that lasted a couple of months. It was not severe (I have clinical depression and I wouldn't have classified it as an episode), it just had me feeling a little down and unmotivated for a while. My bf experienced it as well. But for how much better I had already felt to have quit smoking, it balanced out okay and we survived without incident

My point is not to scare you, but just to let you know that there may be there and there are ways of dealing with them. Most of all, they aren't severe and don't last very long

Happy vaping and keep us updated on your journey!!!

 

[wreimer]

Congrats! It sounds like you're having a very positive first day! I've been through many of the same routes that you describe trying to give up analogs...and just like you they didn't work. Vaping is the only thing that's gotten me away from them. I've been smoke-free since last November, and feel much better for it. One thing I will add to Chelly's list of things to watch for...the first cigarette of the day syndrome.

It took me a couple of weeks to get past that hurdle. My solution was to finally keep the e-cig on the night stand, and to take a drag as soon as I opened my eyes. That broke the "habit" for me, and I haven't looked back. Good luck!

 

[MisterMike]

Thanks again for all the pitfalls to watch for. I've noticed the dehydration a bit already, and have been countering that. Good to know that there may yet be some side-effects that I've yet to experience. We'll see in a couple days how I'm doing with the irritability part, among other things. So far, so good, but I expect I may think differently in a week during the whole detox phase.

This is the longest I've voluntarily gone without a cigarette in I don't know how long, so here's to those first few baby steps!

 

[Jake]

Congratulations MisterMike! You will do fine, just keep the positive attitude! I never really experienced any of the warned side effects and I was a 20 year + pack a day smoker. I just noticed all of the good things like being able the breathe easier, no hacking up a lung in the morning, the wheezing noise I had when trying to sleep was gone, and a lot more energy. The ego is a great first choice.. I remember the ecig I had to start with over 3 years ago was so cheesy and old fashioned I think it had a crank on it. Cheers buddy!